Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the version
of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For instance I used
DSSS to install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars D Compiler v1.018"
even thought the latest stable version is v1.023. Wouldn't it make more sense
to have the program identify and install the most current stable version of the
program? Speaking of which, there are the locations from which the program does
it's installations:
1) http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources
2) http://dsss.brainsware.org/sources
Why wouldn't DMD be installed from ftp.digitalmars.com?
Well that's definitely what I'm looking for so let me go ahead and uninstall
this bad boy. So far so good: DSSS reports a successful uninstall and every
attempt after that reports "Package dmd is not installed." But wait a minute
all the files are still resident on my computer. Am I missing something or are
the files placed on the computer not supposed to be removed in the uninstall
process?
Guess I was expecting a little too much there. Back to installation by
unzipping zip files! Thanks for the effort anyway.
Andrew

Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the
version of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For instance I
used DSSS to install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars D Compiler
v1.018" even thought the latest stable version is v1.023. Wouldn't it make more
sense to have the program identify and install the most current stable version
of the program? Speaking of which, there are the locations from which the
program does it's installations:
1) http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources
2) http://dsss.brainsware.org/sources
Why wouldn't DMD be installed from ftp.digitalmars.com?
Well that's definitely what I'm looking for so let me go ahead and uninstall
this bad boy. So far so good: DSSS reports a successful uninstall and every
attempt after that reports "Package dmd is not installed." But wait a minute
all the files are still resident on my computer. Am I missing something or are
the files placed on the computer not supposed to be removed in the uninstall
process?
Guess I was expecting a little too much there. Back to installation by
unzipping zip files! Thanks for the effort anyway.
Andrew

I think DSSS is great, but installing DMD on windows is so easy, I
wouldn't bother with it for that. And installing Tango or GDC is so
complicated that I wouldn't trust it for that.
But it works pretty well for regular D code.
The major thing it lacks as you also notices is any sort of a versioning
mechanism to allow selection of versions or multiple installs of
different versions of things.
--bb

Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the
version of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For instance I
used DSSS to install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars D Compiler
v1.018" even thought the latest stable version is v1.023. Wouldn't it make more
sense to have the program identify and install the most current stable version
of the program? Speaking of which, there are the locations from which the
program does it's installations:
1) http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources
2) http://dsss.brainsware.org/sources
Why wouldn't DMD be installed from ftp.digitalmars.com?
Well that's definitely what I'm looking for so let me go ahead and uninstall
this bad boy. So far so good: DSSS reports a successful uninstall and every
attempt after that reports "Package dmd is not installed." But wait a minute
all the files are still resident on my computer. Am I missing something or are
the files placed on the computer not supposed to be removed in the uninstall
process?
Guess I was expecting a little too much there. Back to installation by
unzipping zip files! Thanks for the effort anyway.
Andrew

Unfortunate that this didn't work out, but I definitely recommend to
give dsss another chance and learn what's it capable of.

Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the
version of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For
instance I used DSSS to install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars D
Compiler v1.018" even thought the latest stable version is v1.023.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the program identify and install the
most current stable version of the program? Speaking of which, there are
the locations from which the program does it's installations:
1) http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources
2) http://dsss.brainsware.org/sources
Why wouldn't DMD be installed from ftp.digitalmars.com?
Well that's definitely what I'm looking for so let me go ahead and
uninstall this bad boy. So far so good: DSSS reports a successful
uninstall and every attempt after that reports "Package dmd is not
installed." But wait a minute all the files are still resident on my
computer. Am I missing something or are the files placed on the computer
not supposed to be removed in the uninstall process?
Guess I was expecting a little too much there. Back to installation by
unzipping zip files! Thanks for the effort anyway.
Andrew

In my experience DSSS works much better on Linux than on Windows. It's not
really all that surprising, since the developer is .. well, a rabid
Windows-hater.
But things tend to be easier to install under Windows, so if all you need a
build tool, Build works very nicely on Windows (but not so well under Linux.
Hmmm...)

Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the
version of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For
instance I used DSSS to install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars D
Compiler v1.018" even thought the latest stable version is v1.023.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the program identify and install the
most current stable version of the program? Speaking of which, there are
the locations from which the program does it's installations:
1) http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources
2) http://dsss.brainsware.org/sources
Why wouldn't DMD be installed from ftp.digitalmars.com?
Well that's definitely what I'm looking for so let me go ahead and
uninstall this bad boy. So far so good: DSSS reports a successful
uninstall and every attempt after that reports "Package dmd is not
installed." But wait a minute all the files are still resident on my
computer. Am I missing something or are the files placed on the computer
not supposed to be removed in the uninstall process?
Guess I was expecting a little too much there. Back to installation by
unzipping zip files! Thanks for the effort anyway.
Andrew

In my experience DSSS works much better on Linux than on Windows. It's not
really all that surprising, since the developer is .. well, a rabid
Windows-hater.
But things tend to be easier to install under Windows, so if all you need a
build tool, Build works very nicely on Windows (but not so well under Linux.
Hmmm...)

I use dsss almost exclusively on Windows. I only fire up my VMWare
ubuntu occasionally to check compatibility. So maybe it does work
better on Linux, but it still works great on Windows in my experience.
--bb

Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the
version
of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For instance I used
DSSS to
install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars D Compiler v1.018" even
thought the latest
stable version is v1.023.

It used to grab the 'officially stable' dmd.zip from digitalmars (which is
1.015, it seems). Gregor changed it to DMD 1.018 a few months ago. That there's
no dmd-latest is my fault: I told Gregor I'd add it and keep it updated, but
failed to do so.
After some attempts, making the installation and unstallation work properly
across platforms and cooperative with phobos/tango installations seemed to
require more effort than it's worth.

Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the
version of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For
instance I used DSSS to install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars
D Compiler v1.018" even thought the latest stable version is v1.023.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the program identify and install the
most current stable version of the program? Speaking of which, there are
the locations from which the program does it's installations:
1) http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources 2)
http://dsss.brainsware.org/sources
Why wouldn't DMD be installed from ftp.digitalmars.com?
Well that's definitely what I'm looking for so let me go ahead and
uninstall this bad boy. So far so good: DSSS reports a successful
uninstall and every attempt after that reports "Package dmd is not
installed." But wait a minute all the files are still resident on my
computer. Am I missing something or are the files placed on the computer
not supposed to be removed in the uninstall process?
Guess I was expecting a little too much there. Back to installation by
unzipping zip files! Thanks for the effort anyway.
Andrew

I haven't used the windows version, but I would not use its ability to
install dmd as a good rating of dsss. The main reason is that it will be
behind, this is caused because dmd.zip from the ftp site (yes it uses the
digitalmars site) is behind and to get the latest you must query the site
and compare versions, I don't think it's worth it. I would suggest
keeping it and see what it can do for you. If you haven't had a need for
make files it looses its appeal, but I can see more and more D projects
shipping installable with dsss.